Myers v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: • The facts set up in the petition and otherwise appearing on the argument are set forth in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtScoeield, J.
This claim was transmitted to the Court of Claims February-23, 1885, under the provisions of the act of March 3,1883, known as the Bowman Act (22 Stat. L., 485), by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives.
By the first section of that act any committee of the Senate or House is authorized to transmit to this court any claim pending before it; but by the third section, the court is forbidden to take jurisdiction of any claim “ which is now (March 3,1883) barred by virtue of the provisions of any law of the United States.”
In this way it becomes the duty of the court to…
2Cited by3 opinions
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- Brandon v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1911
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